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I’ve used many traffic generation strategies over the years, including search engine optimization, free classifieds, social marketing, forum posting, as well as other strategies that aren’t effective anymore: ffa pages, safelists, etc.

During that time, I’ve found that writing and submitting articles has been the most effective way for me to drive traffic to my sites.

There are a lot of reasons for this, but the most important is giving others a taste of the type of content available on my sites and demonstrating how what I offer can solve visitors’ problems.

Although there are many ways you can improve your articles to get better results, here are five article marketing strategies that can increase your results.

1. Don’t just write good articles; write a lot of them.

The more articles you have circulating on the internet, the more chances you have of being read by your target market.

This is especially important if you have more than one specialty. You’ll want to write a wide variety of articles on your particular topic and circulate them to as many article directories as possible to broaden your reach.

Remember, article directories are your friends. Directory owners are looking for great content for their visitors, and they can help you get better exposure. Treat them right by giving them good content.

2. Submit to directories that offer RSS feeds.

RSS is really simple syndication. It’s a form of code that’s search engine friendly. Many websites use this code to display constantly updated content on their websites, and so it’s another opportunity for others to find your articles.

Make sure you submit your articles to sites that offer this, and it’s even better if there’s a syndication feed for you by name in case others want to syndicate your content specifically.

3. Don’t obssess over the duplicate content penalty.

Duplicate content is something that really has gotten a bad rap. I really do believe that many of the article directories available today would shut down if they weren’t benefitting from the “duplicate content” they’re receiving. Sites like Google, Yahoo, and MSN all use duplicate content with their news services, as well as other features on their sites. These sites are more interested in good content on sites than obssessing over sites that use duplicate content because the ultimate goal of content is to serve the readers.

As an article writer, it’s not your responsibility to worry about getting the article directories indexed anyway. Your job is to write good articles that site owners, ezine owners, and article directories want to publish.

Regardless of how many times your article is published on the internet, at least one copy will be found in the search engines, so why worry about it?

4. Pay particular attention to your resource box.

No one wants to hear your life story. What they want to know is how you can help them solve their problems. Although your articles give your readers a taste of how you can help them, your resource box should drive them back to your website for a complete solution.

Although you may want to tell others a little about yourself, as well as your credentials, don’t waste your time telling others about your personal life, where you’re from, or your likes and dislikes. Give your visitors a reason to visit your site: a free report, white paper, newsletter, or something that further explains your solution. Build a relationship. It makes it easier to sell your product.

5. Check your word count.

Most article directories have some type of guidelines about the articles they accept, and the requirements you need to meet to get your articles accepted.

Word count is probably one of the biggest things that causes writers problems now. If your article is too short, it won’t get accepted. Sometimes your article can even be too long.

You can give plenty of information in your article without it being too long. Most article directories will accept articles that are between 400 and 750 words. Some article directories will require your article be at least 500 words. Hit somewhere in between these numbers, and your article will be fine.

There are many things you can do to improve your acceptance rate on your articles. The most important is to just write good articles, and you’ll get read.

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Article Syndication is a great way to increase your incoming links and drive targeted traffic to your site. Most small business owners don’t have the time or the writing skills to produce quality content on a regular basis, making article writing a prime candidate for outsourcing.

Outsourcing isn’t as easy as it sounds though. A search for Freelance Writer on Google turns up millions of results, with many of them having equal claim to being the best for you. Here are a few tips and questions to ask when you are looking for a freelance article writer.

Who is doing the work?
Make sure you know who is doing the actual writing. They may well be outsourcing it, which is fine, as long as you know where it is going and are ok with that. Many 3rd world countries product very good work, but the cultural understanding of the topic is so different it make the writing almost useless. For example, authors in conservative 3rd world countries cannot convincingly write about online dating.

Qualifications?
Qualifications are an important consideration but not essential. There are lots of writers that don’t have University degrees and produce very high quality work. Of course, writers with a University or College degree in North America are highly desirable, but hard to find. If you can find them, they should be at the top of your list.

How Much?
Many writing agencies claim they can produce quality blog posts of 300 words for $1 or $2. Don’t believe it! Look for prices in the middle range. Here are a few factors that will affect the price.

Audience: If you audience is very general, you won’t have much to worry about and it won’t affect the price. The more specialized your audience is, however, the higher the price, and the more careful you are going to have to be. Articles about online dating for a mass market audience are going to be easier than articles for Car Dealers or Engineers. If you have a specialized audience, and a writing agency quotes you the regular or standard price, they don’t know what they are doing and it’s time to move on.

Content: Like audience, the more specialized the topic, the higher the price. If you have a specialized topic that you would like a freelance writer to write for you, be prepared to provide them with background material to assist them with their job. This will make a huge difference to the quality of the final product.

Where is it being written? Think about how long it would take you to write 500 words, or about one page. Probably anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. If the price that you get is ridiculously low, when translated into an hourly rate, that will tell you something about who is writing it and where they are writing it.

This requires some careful analysis that few people understand and often overlook. If writers are real professionals, with College or University degrees, and a lot of experience, then they can produce quality content very fast. The price may seem low, but that is because the writers are professionals, not because they are outsourcing.

Developing a long term relationship with a writing agency, is one of the best things that you can do for you website and your business!

Brian Stocker is a writer, editor and online marketing specialist. Visit his website http://www.content-writer.org/articles/index.html

No doubt you have come accross this time and time again; to improve your websites popularity, search engine ranking etc., you need to write articles. You will also probably think, as I did, that I can’t do this.

There are ways around this. You can purchase the rights to articles that will allow you to add your own resource box to the bottom. The content may not be the freshest and the newest, and many others may be using the same content or variations on it, but it is still content with your resource box tagged on at the bottom. There are numerous article submission directories and sites on the net, such as the biggies like GoArticles, to small ones like my own. You will be able to submit your article, even if it isn’t original, to some of these without duplicating existing content on the article directory. This is what I did first.

The next possibility is to go somewhere like http://www.elance.com, and pay someone to write articles for you. This is more expensive than the first option, but has the benefit that the article is original, so it is more likely to be copied and published elsewhere. Also, make sure you have the complete rights to the material you commission, so that you may modify, relabel, or amalgamate into an ebook if you desire. Usually, you should get several decent articles for the amount of money you spend.

Finally, are you sure you can’t write your own article? That you haven’t found out something in your life that will be of interest to others? There is a huge list of possible article subjects at GoArticles and other sites, and you will be amazed at what you do know if you sit and think about it. After all, as I said earlier, I didn’t think I was capable of writing an article, yet this is one I wrote myself, and it isn’t my first. If you’ve made mistakes, an article describing how NOT to do something can be just as useful as one describing how to do something. If you still have problems coming up with a coherent article, jot down your notes and pay someone to ghostwrite it for you. Again, check sites like Elance for ghostwriters.

Why write and distribute articles in the first place? Free advertising and promotion. I submitted several articles to a handful (under five) of article directories. Several days later, after Google had done a recent crawl, I did a number of phrase searches on the web. If you enclose your search phrase in quotes, Google will search for that specific phrase. I searched for some of the article titles I had posted, and my own name (admittedly, this is only useful if you have a rare name that doesn’t bring up pages of search results for other people of the same name). I found the articles I had published showing up on several websites. What made this even better was that a number of the places where I found the articles weren’t places I had submitted them to. Other people had taken my articles and published them on their own websites. So the benefit is, lots of non-reciprocal links pointing to your website, that frequently you didn’t have to do anything beyond initially publishing the article to get. Free traffic, advertising and promotion for a few minutes work.

A final note. Make sure the articles are useful, and not just promotional sales letters. They don’t have to be long, 1-2,000 words is usually adequate as a maximum length for an article, but don’t just publish sales blurb. Your article won’t get syndicated elsewhere, and your reputation will suffer. Get known as a source of decent quality articles, and you will become known as an expert.

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Adrian Kennelly is the webmaster of DirectoryGold Web Directory http://www.directorygold.com which includes an Article Directory http://articles.directorygold.com

It seems that one of the most popular ways for people to make money on the internet is through affiliate programs. Understanding what these are and how they work is key to making money with affiliate marketing.

An affiliate program is a program that many companies have that they offer to people as a way to make money, without being employed by the company.

All types of companies have affiliate programs, and the purpose of the program is get “free” advertising done by their affiliates.

From Overture, a keyword suggestion tool, you will see the millions of searches done to a certain keyword.

When these keywords are typed on search boxes of search engines, indexed websites containing articles with those keywords will be displayed.

And this is what leads traffic to websites with keyword-rich articles. Yes, the magic word is articles.

Content is king. You can say that again. That is why writing articles is one of the most utilized Internet marketing media today.

Internet surfers just can’t get enough of information on various fields. Providing information through these articles is a surefire way to drive hot traffic to your web site.

Why is this so? Here are the benefits that writing articles can give your Internet business.

1. It’s absolutely free.

Too good to be true? Not. Okay, you have to pay for your Internet Service Provider. That’s it.

All you need is your thoughts, your computer, and your hands. If you have those, nothing will stop you from typing words that will make you complete that article for your website.

On which aspect of that process did you really shell out any cent? Maybe later when your electric bills come.

2. Your website will be noticed in a short period of time.

Submit that article of yours to article directories that get the most web traffic and in no time your web site will be crawled. That is if you don’t forget including your resource box or byline.

3. Obtain back links automatically.

When you submit your articles to directories, surely, other websites will make use of your article too.

With the copyright terms of your articles, the URL of your website will still be in tact and will subsequently direct more traffic to your website.

4. Improve your reputation.

As an Internet marketer, if you plainly display your products on your website, you will not gain much conversion rate. Conversion is when your traffic converts to sales.

You have to show that you are knowledgeable on your field. And what better way to show that than by writing articles that will allow you some bragging rights, right?

Just make your creative juices flow and jot down or key in those ideas quickly to jumpstart your article writing momentum.

Considering these Internet Marketing Solution, there are different companies offering software products containing one or all of these solutions.

It would be a great opportunity to try one of these which will match your financial capability and expected return profit.

With those benefits listed above, a writer’s block is the last problem you will ever be able to surmount.

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While some people succeed in Internet marketing, some fail dismally and lose a lot of money they would have invested.

Getting started in internet marketing involves a lot of things, namely having your website designed, your sales page created and adding Ad Sense added onto your site. Setting up an auto responder and a newsletter for your site visitors to subscribe to, as well as your blog will also need to be done.

In addition, creating a marketing campaign to generate traffic is yet another very important thing to do - your Adwords, creating some viral marketing tools, search engine optimizing your website, and writing and submitting articles, among other things. You will also need to know how to track your ads so that you know which ads work and which do not.

All these activities are essential if you want to succeed with your internet marketing. They are all very important, and they all need to be done. For those people new to internet marketing, all these activities can be daunting. Some people would like to do internet marketing, but they just do not know where to start.

So what steps must you take to get started in internet marketing? What must you do in order to succeed with your internet marketing business? Outlined below are the key steps you will need to take if you are to be successful in internet marketing.

1. Set up your goals. What do you want to achieve in the short and long term? Are you planning on having internet marketing as your main income generator? Do you want to just have a part-time online business? How much do you want to earn. Your goals will help you decide what type of internet marketing to get into; depending on how much income you want to earn.

2. Decide on what you are going to be marketing. Are you going to create a product yourself, are you going to be offering a service? Are you going to be marketing someone else’s product? Are you passionate about that which you sell?

3. Design and create your website. After you have decided what you want to market, create a suitable website. You can do this yourself if you have the skills or if you are keen to learn, or you can pay someone to do it for you. Make sure that your website is professional and effective for getting traffic - with your keywords and fresh unique content.

4. Add all the necessary things to your website so that it is ready to take orders and help with building a list for you - your auto-responder and newsletter. Add some AdSense since you can make some money from these as the traffic to your website increases.

5. Plan and establish your marketing budget. To be successful with internet marketing, you will need some traffic. This is a simple fact you should not underestimate. What is your budget and therefore what marketing tools can you afford. There are some fairly cheap advertising options if you are on a tight budget; such as article writing and submission and participating in relevant forums. If you have a good budget, you can do solo ads in ezines, PPC (Pay per Click), paid classifies, among others.

6. Set up your daily work schedule. This is very important - for your online business to succeed, you must be committed to work on it and stick to a program of all the things that you must do consistently in order for you to earn the profits you want. If you still have a nine to five day job and hope that your internet marketing income will one day be your main source of income, then you must be prepared to work extra hard and still work on your internet marketing business in addition to your day job. The goals you would have set up earlier will also determine your daily activities - if you want to earn a lot of money with your internet marketing business, then you must be prepared to be focused and commit time and effort to your business.

7. Master your favorite marketing plans that work for you and that you can afford. It is normal that when you are starting in internet marketing, you try various types of marketing your business. The trick to succeeding in internet marketing is knowing what works in growing your business, master that, and then do it consistently. Subject to your budget, decide about five main strategies that you like and want to focus on. If it is PPC, then keen on improving that and master it. If it is ezine advertising, then make your ads more effective and choose the best ezines to use. Although you may have the best marketing strategies you use, you must regularly look for other marketing tools that could potentially yield better results.

8. Find a suitable support network - a mentor or someone who is successful in internet marketing or a forum of people with similar businesses. It is important for you to make your learning curve as short as possible. You can learn a lot from people with similar businesses and those who have succeeded with a similar business. The other reality of starting your own internet marketing business is that you may face some challenges and setbacks along the way. What will make you a ‘winner’ in the internet marketing business is to never quit. So, if you have a good support network, you will have people who can help you answer any questions you may have, do something for you do not know how to or simply give you words of encouragement.

9. Be prepared to learn! Internet marketing is very dynamic and competition is very strong. The internet is full of free resources, e-books and tools. Do not waste your money paying on a lot of resources because you can get most for free. Keep on learning and keep on improving your website and marketing tools to suit the times and the customers’ expectations.

10. Stay focused, and repeat that which works. If you have established a marketing tool that makes you a sale, it maybe $10 or $100, by simply intensifying, repeating and improving that which has made you this sale - you can soon earn a six figure income.

Follow these steps and you will be on your way to prosperity with your internet business!

Jeff Casmer is an award winning internet marketing consultant with career sales over $25,000,000. For more articles and information on Internet Marketing: http://www.24hourwealth.com/articles/articles.html

If you want to earn money online, your online business needs traffic. Among all the various ways of advertising a website, article writing and submitting remains the most effective and affordable way to promote your online business.

Articles contain useful information which web surfers need. If you supply this information in the form of articles, it means that whenever someone is searching for related information online, your article comes up and at the end of your article you have a link to your website. You can therefore use articles to drive traffic to your website and earn money online.

Outlined below are powerful eight reasons why you should start taking article writing seriously to boost the money you earn online. All you have to do is to write your high quality articles, submit them and enjoy the benefits!

Article writing and submitting is viral! You write your articles and submit them to several article directories and thousands more websites, blogs and search engines can pick up those articles. Thousands of website and newsletter owners can publish your articles with its authors biography, causing a viral outburst and boost traffic to your website, and help you successfully and easily earn money online. It is however important to mention that for your articles to bring this kind of results, they must be of high quality and must also be key-word rich with your niche keywords.

Article marketing is free. Articles are one of the most cost effective marketing tools that you can use to earn money online. If you have the time, you can write your own article and submit them to article directories. If you have the resources, you can hire a ghostwriter to write it for you and you can also buy some software that can automate the distribution of your articles. You can therefore use articles to drive traffic to your website and earn money online on any budget.

You get immediate results. The more directories you submit your articles to, the better the results, making articles the best form of driving traffic to your website and earn money online. If you submit your articles to article directories that get high volumes of web traffic, you will see immediate results in the form of increased volume of traffic to your website, which will increase your sales and help you easily earn money online.

You become the expert in your niche. Trust and confidence are very important in online businesses. If you regularly write high quality articles in your niche, you become recognized as an expert in your niche. Potential customers will therefore buy from you because they know that you are an expert in your niche. This will further increase your sales and you can therefore earn money online easily.

Articles increase your search engines visibility. The fact is; if your website cant be seen on search engines, you will not get traffic. People type in their key words on search engines and those websites that are linked to search engines come up. Search engines like fresh and unique content in the form of articles. If you have fresh articles and fresh content of your website, you increase your visibility on search engines, which will help you earn money online through high volumes of traffic and more sales.

Articles are a good way to get one way high PR links. When your article is reprinted by an article directory that has a high popularity ranking (PR), you benefit because you get a boost to your website PR!

Articles bring life long traffic to your website and help you earn money online in the short and long term. Most tools for driving traffic to a website have momentary results. However, with article marketing, once your article is on the web, it will continue bringing traffic to your website for a long time. You will continue to earn money online from all the articles you submit for a long time in the future.

You can post your articles on relevant forums and attract some targeted customers. Forums and enthusiasts groups are good for advertising your website, boost traffic to your website and earn money online.

With all these massive benefits from writing and submitting articles, you must take your article writing seriously! The more articles you write and submit, the more the benefits! Anyone can earn money online successfully using articles as a promotional tool.

Jeff Casmer is an internet marketing consultant with career sales over $25,000,000. His “Top Ranked” (http://www.24hourwealth.com/) Work at Home Directory gives you all the information you need to start and prosper with your own Internet Home Based Business.

If you’ve been an avid internet marketer for the past three years, you know that video syndication is a hot way to explode your hits. Or so says everyone who’s doing. The thing is nearly everyone is doing it.

You can find over 50 web businesses that offer top rate video sharing services. And it’s guaranteed that there will be others who will take it up as a business model. It is estimated about 1.7 billion dollars will be spent on web video placements.

The video revolution, thanks to the boom of YouTube, is exploding at an uncontrollable rate and with ever faster internet services, dirt cheap kits, and television viewers shifting online the boom can only be expected to increase.

As web video grows so does video marketing. An immature marketer can now, with little effort, create a short how-to video or a promotional blurb for their website. And web bloggers are everywhere talking about everything from global affairs to what wine to serve at your next dinner party.

As long as there’s an audience Emarketers will make sure that they get their message in front of them loud and clear. And the message is seemly the same, “buy my product,” “use my service.” The web has become a fantastic option to further increase the success of your business. Hence why there is such a need for video syndication. Video ad networks do what article directories do, which is to get your message in front anyone who is interested in viewing it.

And thanks to such sites like Blip.TV, YouTube, GoogleVideo and Videoegg, web video stars are born everyday. Because these, and several other sites, make it so easy to push video’s to other sites and have them look great once they arrive, the response that a video marketer can get is not only overwhelming but addicting.

Suddenly, sitting down at your computer to type out a five hundred word article is not as appealing. But before anyone can label article directories the dinosaurs of web marketing consider the following.

Accessibility is still the grounds behind the internet’s popularity. You can get anything, anytime from anywhere. But many people disregard what accessibility really means. Accessibility refers to the practice of creating websites for people with any ability or disability.

Thus people’s eye sight and auditory skills have to be taken in consideration. In other words no website should ever rely solely on video or audio components to convey their message.

The visitor’s computer? Suppose the person has no speakers or if they have them turned off. You risk the fact that they could miss your message. They may even get annoyed if they are listening to something else and there’s a video playing on the website, thus leaving the website without receiving the message.

While you may be tempted to give article marketing the old heave ho because of the popularity of video marketing the truth is written content still prevails online.

Video syndication is here to stay, there’s no doubt about that. As technology improves even more people will embrace video and we should be glad of it. It can make marketing not only fun but highly responsive. Just keep in mind that as you turn your written content into streamed videos that you will still need those words, especially when the next big thing merges.

Jeff Casmer is an internet marketing consultant and work at home business owner. His “Top Ranked” (http://www.24hourwealth.com/) Earn Money at Home Directory gives you all the information you need to start and prosper with your own Internet Home Based Business.

Successful article swapping is similar to an ad swap in that two publishers exchange articles in each other’s publications with one big difference, online, you can make money with articles by doing swaps.

A win-win situation for both parties, article swapping saves the publishers time by decreasing their workload while enhancing their publication with a fresh voice for their readers.

Successful article swapping can generate subscribers every time for a publisher and in some cases lead
to joint ventures, solo ads in each other’s ezines and more. One of the greatest bonuses however, is your article is seen by many who may not otherwise read your article or find out about your business.

How do you get started? Provided below are seven steps to a successful article swap.

1. Choose your publishers wisely. The golden rule for every marketing campaign is to target your audience. Article marketing is no different. Your return on investment and your ability to make money with articles will be greater if you take the time to search for publishers who publish content closely related to your article topic.

2. This next tip will help set you apart from the others who will inquire the publisher about swapping articles. Take the time to read a couple of issues. Doing so allows you to:

A) Send an article that compliments one previously published Or B) mention what impressed you in your opening email.

Many people don’t take the time to do this so it will definitely give you a leg up.

3. Clearly state your goal in your opening letter. Be sure to let the publisher knows that you want to swap articles rather than just have your article published.

Publishers receive a great deal of article publishing requests that they put aside for later review. To
avoid having your article end up in this pile ensure that your subject is clear and to the point. Make sure that your subject relates to the actual message. Anything else just annoys the publishers.

4. The word count and formatting should be included in your message. For example 653 words formatted to 65 characters with hard returns at the end of each line.

Not only does this save the publisher time, but it leaves a resounding “I’m a professional” for the publisher. You can take your professionalism a step further by running your article through a spam filter reporting service. And inform publishers that your article is clean and will not hinder the delivery of the publication.

5. Use an autoresponder. Instead of sending the article with the inquiry, set up an autoresponder. This way you will be able to analyze who is interested in your article.

6. If appropriate for you offer to combine an ad swap with an article swap. By offering to extend the arrangement to include ads you save yourself and the publisher time. Don’t however make the article swap conditional on swapping ads or it may come across as blackmail.

7. Always send publishes a courtesy copy. This doesn’t get you off the hook on being clear on when their article will run in your publication. It does however, show courtesy and professionalism to send them a copy. Not every publisher will subscribe to your ezine and if they don’t it’s nice to send them a copy when their article is published.

For an added bonus, forward a copy of any feedback sent after you run the article.

With the nature of the web being an information based tool, successful article swapping are an excellent way to get your information in front countless people, make money with articles and develop long lasting business relationships. This on the web can be the difference between a here-today- gone-tomorrow business and a here-to-stay business.

Jeff Casmer is an internet marketing consultant and work at home business owner. His “Top Ranked” (http://www.24hourwealth.com/) Earn Money at Home Directory gives you all the information you need to start and prosper with your own Internet Home Based Business.

Articles are vastly underestimated by many online businesses today and the truth is that the benefits of marketing with articles is impossible to fully measure. Articles can make or break a site in terms of traffic and repeat visitors. In addition to other SEO factors and other methods of linking article marketing has developed into a major element in site building and earning profit from that site. In addition to the SEO benefits that articles provide by submitting them to article directories you also will benefit from direct click throughs from the articles themselves.

Many website owners have seen the results of using articles on their sites and for site promotion almost immediately. Original articles will help to get you higher rankings in the search engine results and the higher you rank in the search engines the more free organic traffic you will receive. Obviously this is the most desirable outcome since it opens up the potential for other income generating opportunities as well.

You can’t just write anything though, you need to have some guidelines and the following tips will help you get moving in the right direction.

One tricky area in that of keywords, in the early days of article marketing you could just stuff keywords into articles and that would get you ranked, now that same practice can get you banned. The key now is to write more naturally and focus on certain niche keywords and their synonyms, for example, writing articles about a particular model of car or wristwatch. How to articles are in great demand and are very well liked by all. You want to be sure that the article has keywords related to your site so do your keyword research and use the right keywords in articles that you write.

As I mentioned previously, you cannot get by these days by just stuffing articles full of keywords the articles must actually be good sources of information in order to be picked up by the greatest number of possible syndicate networks and other websites. In addition to being entertaining and informative they also need to be written with good spelling and proper grammar which precludes one from relying on third world country rewriters in order to get articles written correctly.

Include as many facts, figures, and statistics as you can in your articles and you will also benefit in being seen as an expert in the field you are writing about. It will help them to trust you and the products and services you represent.

Lastly, you want to be sure to write a compelling resource box for the article. Some article directories are more limiting on how many links can be included in this but this is the whole key to your article. If you write and article and don’t have the links back to the site you are seeking to promote with well chosen anchor text you have just wasted your time writing the article.

Gregg Hall is an author living with his 18 year old son in Jensen Beach, Florida. Find more about articles as well as article marketing at http://www.endlessarticles.com

Many people when they set up their websites are at a loss at how to bring traffic to them. For some it is also a matter of cost so it is crucial to find ways to promote the sites that are free or at least very cost effective. One of the best methods for website promotion is actually free, it’s called Article Marketing.

The way that this marketing method works is to write articles that are related to the subject matter or content of your website and then post them to article directories at no cost. This site promotion method is easy to do, doesn’t take a lot of time, and can give you immediate traffic.

The article directories allow you to include a resource box at the bottom of your article that contains the link back to your website along with your chosen keywords or tags which is known as “anchor text”. Many people who read the articles may be curious and visit the site you are including in your resource box, this is why it is good to write articles that are interesting and also stimulate or motivate people to visit your sites.

Article directories also serve as syndicate networks that pass on your articles to other sites. Many people use these to add content to their own websites because they don’t have time to write the content themselves and adding the articles is a simple and effective way to do it. They also keep the resource box which gives you more back links to your site and more opportunities for other people to click your site.

As you write more articles and the number of sites linking back increases in number and diversity appearing on article sites, as well as other websites all over the internet. I personally have over 200,000 articles indexed in my name and since I have written and submitted less than two thousand this shows the power of article marketing. This method is excellent for getting back links to your websites which gives you that much more relevance in the search engines.

No matter what type of product or service you are promoting you can benefit by writing articles. The key is to get large numbers of your articles syndicated or published across the web. I have some articles that have been published on other websites several thousand times which is giving me great exposure for the site in that resource box.

Many people searching on the internet are seeking answers to questions or more information on a particular subject. If you are able to supply them with what they are seeking in the way of information they are more likely to click a link in the resource box and go to the site that you want to promote. So in addition to the SEO benefit of writing articles for back links you also benefit from direct sales as well.

Gregg Hall is an author living with his 18 year old son in Jensen Beach, Florida. Find more about articles as well as article marketing at http://www.endlessarticles.com